New features of .NET Core 2.1

Earlier this week, Microsoft published the roadmap for .NET Core 2.1, ASP.NET Core 2.1 and EF Core 2.1, expected to be out in the first quarter of 2018. The team also talked about several new features with this new release. This release is more of a feedback-oriented release based on .NET Core 2.0 release. The.NET Core 2.0 is a huge success and already more than half a million developers are now using .NET Core 2.0. All thanks to .NET Standard 2.0 release. In this post find out about the new features of .NET Core 2.1.

New features of .NET Core 2.1

The 2.1 version nightly builds are already on Github to play around with these new features. Here are some of the new features expected in .NET Core 2.1, according to Scott Hunter, program manager of .NET Core.

Note: These are screenshots from the video.

Watch Scott Hunter talks about .NET Core 2.1 features and more.

Here is another video showing a demo of some of the new features of .NET Core 2.1, ASP.NET Core 2.1 and Entity Framework Core 2.1.

A very exciting time ahead, mainly with new features like windows compatibility pack, Razor pages improvements, SignalR with ASP.NET Core, HttpClient Factory, Identity as a library, HTTPS on by default and others…

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